Legendary record producer Quincy Jones has described the Beatles as the worst musicians in the world as he recalled meeting the band for the first time during an interview to promote a new Netflix documentary and US television special.

In the new interview with New York Magazine, he discussed his first impressions of the Beatles in unsparing terms. They were the worst musicians in the world, he told interviewer David Marchese. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul [McCartney] was the worst bass player I ever heard.

Drummer Ringo Starr came in for particular opprobrium: And Ringo? Dont even talk about it.

Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldnt get it. We said: Mate, why dont you get some lager and lime, some shepherds pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.

In the enjoyably unguarded Q&A, Jones chastised his most famous charge, the late Michael Jackson, for stealing a lot of stuff from other artists without paying them.

He was as machiavellian as they come, he said.

Jones also claimed to know the identity of JFKs killer (Chicago mobster Sam Giancana: We shouldnt talk about this publicly) and to have briefly dated Ivanka Trump 12 years ago: She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. Wrong father, though! Later in the interview, Jones called Trump senior a fucking idiot.

Jones has won 27 Grammy awards out of 79 total nominations. Jacksons 1982 album Thriller won eight of those awards.

Jones balked at New York Magazines suggestion that any of his productions had ever underperformed. What the fuck are you talking about? he asked Marchese. Ive never had that problem. They were all big.